Friday, July 24, 2009

XNA CREATORS CLUB ONLINE REVAMP

Wow! When I woke up this morning and turned on my desktop computer I found quite pleasant news on the creators’ site: it has been revamped!

The homepage has gone through some changes in its look: the news, the ads, the general info have been all rearranged in a more attractive way! Just check it out.

Plus, there’s some new panels like “Top Movers” … wait! What’s a “top mover? From now on, all you do in XNA CCO will give you reputation, either in a positive or negative way:

  • Good contribution: clink! Your reputation moves up. Congrats!
  • Bad contribution: bam! Behave …

Please read this article to get detailed info on how reputation works.

But wait! There’s more:

  • New Countries: Japan an Germany (and also updates to Singapore and Sweden),
  • Tokens: you are a premium member of XNA CCO, you create and submit your games, you receive 50 tokens per game title! Be smart: use them to “increase awareness of your game”,
  • Game Updates: when you submit and publish a new version of your game to the XBox 360, a notice will pop up for existing customers asking if they want to download the newest version,
  • 3.1 Submission: you can now submit games created with XNA GS 3.1, but you will see them on the 360's marketplace (after passing peer review) from August 11, 2009 and on,
  • New Price Structure: 80, 240 and 400 points! Read carefully how this new structure will affect games already available in the marketplace, and
  • XBox Live Indie Games: yes, finally! The new name for our videogames is starting to show up almost everywhere. The name change will be completed later this summer.

Nice one, guys!
~Pete

> Link to Spanish version.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

CUSTOM AVATAR ANIMATION SAMPLE, RIG & ANIMATIONS

Three new resources are available for premium members on the XNA Creators Club:

Hooray!
~Pete

> Link to Spanish version.

Friday, July 17, 2009

XBOX LIVE DASHBOARD UPDATE PREVIEW

Many websites are reporting details about the upcoming “Autumn Update” for the XBox 360’s Dashboard.

There are really great features being added in this one like, among others:

For a full list of the new features, you can read this article.

Cannot wait!
~Pete

> Link to Spanish version.